Monday, February 28, 2011

Lecture in Newtown is about Victorian gardening

NEWTOWN -- Marie Hayes will present a program on Victorian gardening Tuesday at 1 p.m. in Cyrenius H. Booth Library, 25 Main St.
Hayes' slide-show presentation depicts American gardening from 1836 to 1901 at such places as the Harriet Beecher Stowe house in Hartford, the Vanderbilt mansion in Hyde Park, N.Y., and Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, N.Y.
A master gardener and former head gardener at White Flower Farm in Litchfield, Hayes has specialized in perennial borders and cutting gardens for 25 years.
She is a member of the Hartford Landscape Design Council and provides garden consultation and customized floral designs through her business, Gardens Unlimited.
She has spoken about Victorian gardening and other horticultural subjects to historical societies, garden clubs and botanical gardens throughout New York, Florida, Delaware and Connecticut.
She created and installed a garden along the Nile River in Luxor, Egypt.
The lecture, sponsored by the Garden Club of Newtown, is free and open to the public. Registration is not required. For more information, call 203-512-7320.
In case of bad weather, the talk will be canceled if Newtown public schools are closed Tuesday.

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